Wednesday, July 30, 2014

After my previous
review of Manjaro Linux Manjaro KDE! An unpromised Release with
promised breakages !! things have changed a lot on Manjaro side and
it is a much mature project with a huge users numbers and many more
release and different versions. The project is much stable and is
getting better everyday. I installed the MATE version and used it for
a couple of days and it was fun but then I decided to get back the
base to native Arch Linux keeping the skeleton designed by Manjaro
team as it is.

Here is how I did it
and it worked for me perfectly.

1 . Before doing anything else just change the pacman.config settings
as below, you can copy/paste these settings if you like to

#

# /etc/pacman.conf

#

#

# GENERAL OPTIONS

#

[options]

SigLevel =
Never

LocalFileSigLevel =
Optional

HoldPkg = pacman
glibc

SyncFirst =
pacman

Architecture = auto

Color

CheckSpace

ILoveCandy

#

# REPOSITORIES

#

[core]

Include =
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]

Include =
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]

Include =
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

2 . Change pacman
mirrors to these, again you can copy/paste these settings if you like
to keep these mirrors for you

4 . Do # pacman -Syu
and deal with the dpendencies if any arise accordingly , I did not
meet any so I did a full upgrade of all the packages without any
issue.

5 . Install Arch
Linux stock kernel and its headers files

# pacman -Sy linux
linux-headers

You have to deal
with any dependencies if arise manually yourself.

6 . Install nvidia
and its dependencies if any if you are on Nvidia Graphic card like
me. Again you would know how to deal with the dependencies if you get
any issues.

# pacman -Sy nvidia
nvidia-utils

7. Search manually
for all Manjaro related packages and remove them.

8. Do # pacman -Syu
once again and you will get warnings that some packages installed are
newer than the available on mirrors/repositories , you can reinstall
them or live with them , I personally removed all those packages and
reinstalled them from Arch Linux repositories.

9. You might end up
with your mouse freezing up , I tried to know the reason but could
not find one but did find a fix which works

a ) Installing the
tlp package

b
) $ sudo
tlp usb

10
. Remove all Manjaro related wallpapers and eye-candy effects ,
icons,buttons and you are ready to reboot and enjoy your Manjaro
Linux fully converted back to native Arch Linux.